19th, (didn't say which month - probably February)
Its started snowing. The first real snow I've seen here! I took out some buttered buns and sat by the window watching the soft snow flakes drift down, clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It was beautiful.

20th
Woke to a lovely blanket of crystal white snow covering the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Every tree and shrub was covered by a beautiful white mantle. I shovelled snow for the first time, and loved it. I did both the driveway and the pavement. Later, the city snowplough came along and accidentally covered the driveway with the compacted snow from the street, but the driver smiled and waved - I waved back and shovelled again.

21st
It snowed an additional five inches last night and the temperature dropped to around minus 20 degrees. Several limbs on the trees and shrubs snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shovelled the driveway again. Shortly afterwards the snowplough man came by and did his trick again. Much of the snow is now brownish grey.

22nd
Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush, which soon turned to ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tyres for the car. Fell on my arse in the driveway. $200 for the chiropractor, but nothing broken. More snow and ice is expected.

23rd
Still cold. Sold car and bought 4x4 in order to get to work. Slid into the guard-rail and inflicted considerable damage to the rear quarter of the car. Had another six inches of white stuff last night, car covered in snow and crud. More shovelling in store for me again. That bloody snowplough came by twice today.

24th
Minus 27 degrees C outside. More stinking snow. Not a tree or a shrub on the property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night, tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a paraffin heater, which tripped out and nearly burned the bloody house down. I managed to put the flames out, but suffered second degree burns to my hands and lost all eyebrows and eyelashes. Car slid on the way to the emergency room and was written off.

25th
Stupid stinking white stuff keeps coming down! Have to put on all the clothes that I have just to get to the post-box. If I ever catch the sonofadonkey that drives that oversized snowplough, I'll claw open his chest and rip his heart out! I think he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shovelling, then he comes down the street at about 100mph and buries the driveway again. Power still off. The toilet has frozen over and part of the roof has started to cave in.

26th
Six more inches of stupid snow and stupid ice and crap who knows what the kind of stupid crap fell last night. I wounded the retarded snowplough arsehole with an ice pick, but the turkeybutt got away. The car won't start and I think I'm going snowblind. I can't move or feel my toes, and haven't seen the sun in weeks, and there's more dumb snow predicted. Wind-chill factor 33 stinking degrees below zero! I'm moving back to South Africa!!

Editor's Note: Too bad this bloke didn't visit Calgary, where we have wonderful chinooks to break up winter!